Dr. Martin Alan McMahan is an associate professor of Intercultural Studies, and Chair of the Undergraduate Department of Anthropology and Intercultural Studies at Biola University, and past president of the American Society for Church Growth.
Dr. Alan McMahan graduated with a Ph.D. from Fuller Theological Seminary, where his dissertation was entitled "Training Turnaround Leaders, Systemic Approaches to Reinstate Growth in Plateaued Churches."
His students have included both undergraduate and graduate, mid-career professionals, Bible school teachers, pastors, and denominational leaders through the United States, Canada, and much of Southeast Asia.
He has served as a Vice President for the Alliance Theological Seminary, and as the Academic Dean at The King's College in mid-town Manhattan.
He has a wife, Terri, and two sons, Billy and Jonathan, and lives in La Mirada, California.